Hello, I have a question about how χ is determined in CAMB. I know that it is set to - 1, but see below.

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at Planck's pivot scale , and In the synchronous gauge, using the (+ - - -) signature, the comoving curvature perturbation is
\beginequation
\label2
\endequation
where v≡θ / k using the notation of Ma and Bertschinger (\tt arXiv:astro-ph/9506072). For in the radiation epoch,
\beginequation
\label3
,
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and
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.
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It follows from Eqs. (\ref1) and (\ref2) that, for values of τ early enough during radiation domination such that is super-horizon,
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\label4
\endequation
for evaluated at . I used Rν = ρν / (ργ + ρν),
ρν / ργ = (7Nν / 8)(4 / 11)4 / 3, Nν = 3.046, and ln(1010As) = 3.064, from Planck 2015.
Comparing equations for initial conditions in CAMB notes, we see that C = χ / 2.
However, in CAMB, χ is set to - 1.

Am I doing something wrong here? Why this discrepancy? I know that using χ = − 1 in CAMB
gives a CMB angular power spectrum that agrees with
Planck's 2015 results, and using χ = 2C gives an angular power spectrum with amplitudes that are too small. And As is obtained from the CMB, so it makes sense
to me that χ should be constrained observationally.

Sorry if my last post was a bit confusing. The η in my post is the ηs from the synchronous gauge. And I'm using Equation A6 from astro-ph/0212248 for my expression for the comoving curvature perturbation (or χ as CAMB uses), accounting for the relation between the η and ηs. (Sorry, my comment about C = χ / 2 was wrong. What CAMB does is set C = − 1 / 2, or χ = − 1, for flat space. Bertschinger and Ma in astro-ph/9506072 set C = − 1 / 6 for their plots.)

I guess my question is more of a conceptual one:
Why is the comoving curvature parameter χ = − 1 for super-horizon modes as an initial condition? In principle, it seems to me that specifying the initial conditions from the relation (where As is the primordial scalar power spectrum amplitude) when the pivot scale is super-horizon should be correct and consistent with initial conditions that lead to the correct angular power spectrum for the CMB. But according to CAMB (I've tested this), χ = ±1 outputs the correct CMB angular spectrum, but does not.